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50 Céntimos Navàs
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Navàs (Municipality of Navàs) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Printer | Imprenta El Secretariat Català, Barcelona, Spain |
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| Obverse description | The centre of the note carries a vignette of the Catalan coat of arms as a background underprint, flanked on the left by an industrial factory scene and on the right by ears of wheat and fruit, together symbolising the region's industry and agriculture. The denomination '50' appears in large numerals and the issuing authority's legend is printed in letterpress across the face. The overall design is rendered in a two-colour scheme typical of Spanish Civil War-era municipal emergency issues. |
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| Reverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE NAVÀS Emissió acordada en sessió data 11 juny 1937. AQUEST BITLLET HAURÀ DE PRESENTAR-SE AL REEMBOSSAMENT ABANS DEL 31 JULIOL 1938. 50 cts. (Translation: City Council of Navàs Issue agreed in session dated June 11, 1937. This banknote must be presented for reimbursement before July 31, 1938. 50 Centimos) |
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Navàs is a small industrial town in the Bages comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of Catalan municipalities during the Civil War, it issued its own fractional paper currency when Republican Spain's coinage supply collapsed under wartime hoarding and metal requisitions. These local emissions — collectively documented by Albert Turró — were a grassroots monetary response, authorized under the Generalitat de Catalunya's June 1937 decree that gave municipalities formal cover for what many were already doing informally.
Imprenta El Secretariat Català handled a significant volume of these municipal issues out of Barcelona, which accounts for the family resemblance many Turró-catalogued pieces share in their typography and layout. Survival rates for Navàs issues are modest — small-town emissions rarely saw wide distribution or careful preservation.